Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Penne with Chicken and Southwest Cheese Sauce

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Penne with Chicken and Southwest Cheese Sauce. Our Southwest Chicken Penne recipe makes an easy tasty dish. With corn, green beans and chili lime flavours, this weeknight-friendly dish only Season the sauce with a pinch of salt and top with a little grated Parmesan cheese, if you like. Leftovers are delicious reheated, or served cold like a pasta salad!

I remember now why I've avoided chicken in my pasta for years.

This is a quick and easy dish in which penne pasta is tossed with chicken in a simple sauce of cream, pesto and Parmesan cheese.

Heat butter and olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.

You can have Penne with Chicken and Southwest Cheese Sauce using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Penne with Chicken and Southwest Cheese Sauce

  1. You need 6 tbsp of Butter.

  2. It’s 1/2 cup of Finely chopped onion.

  3. You need 1 clove of Minced garlic.

  4. You need 1/3 cup of All purpose flour.

  5. Prepare 1 cup of Half and half.

  6. You need 1 cup of Hot water.

  7. You need 1 of Salt to taste.

  8. It’s 1/4 tsp of Cayenne pepper.

  9. It’s 1/2 tsp of Hot sauce.

  10. It’s 1 tbsp of Lemon juice.

  11. Prepare 1/3 cup of Parmesan cheese.

  12. You need 1/3 cup of Velveeta cheese.

  13. It’s 3/4 cup of Medium salsa.

  14. You need 1/2 cup of Sour cream.

  15. Prepare 5 of Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast.

  16. It’s 1 of Cajun Seasoning to taste.

  17. It’s 2 of Green onions chopped.

  18. You need 1 box of Penne pasta.

Saute chicken and garlic until chicken is almost cooked.

It is rich and creamy and very easy to The recipe uses Mozzarella, provolone and Parmesan cheeses combined with a penne pasta in a rich Alfredo sauce.

Cheesy Baked Penne with Chicken and Broccoli.

All you need to do is blanche the broccoli, boil some pasta, whip up a simple cheese sauce, then mix it all together and bake.

Penne with Chicken and Southwest Cheese Sauce step by step

  1. Melt butter and saute onion and garlic until onions are translucent.

  2. Add flour and stir. Cook for 5minutes stirring constantly.

  3. Mix half and half and water and slowly add mixture to flour mix. Stir or whisk constantly until mixture is smooth. Cook for 3minutes.

  4. Add salt, cayenne, lemon juice and hot sauce. Stir well and add parmesan cheese.

  5. Do NOT boil.

  6. Add Velveeta cheese.

  7. Once cheese is melted add salsa and stir. Add sour cream.

  8. Season Chicken breasts generously with Cajun Seasoning and Broil 8-10 minutes per side or until done.

  9. Cook pasta according to package directions.

  10. To serve, laddle cheese sauce over some noddles (just enough to coat it), stir well, top with sliced chicken. Garnish with green onion.

Two-Cheese Penne with Chicken and Spinach.

Kind of bland and the sauce was a little too thick.

Used chicken broth in place of the pasta water, added a little more liquid and salt.

A just wonderful Penne dish with Italian cheese and grilled chicken.

This based on a recipe is from Hub Pages Restaurant Set aside.